Gambling on a New Year

2019: Gambling on a New Year

As this new
year gets underway, it’s good to look at plans made a year ago. What played out
and what went bust? The future is a gamble and you have to take a risk one way
or the other if you hope to win.

Poker Alice
had faith in her own future and taking on new adventures:

“I did not stay long at my first job, and never
stayed long at any, in fact; there were too many other games to buck, too many
chances for a big winning, too many camps waiting to be invaded. The life of a
gambler was a life of travel, the constant excitement of something new.”

What are
your goals for this year? How many of them require taking a chance? How many
are safe bets? You can’t have the thrill without risk, says our legendary lady
gambler:

“It was the
thrill of it, to buck the game and beat the game . . . The thrill, in case one
may think that I am looking upon memories from afar, never leaves one.”